An Essay on the Development of Christian DoctrineStill considered essential reading for serious thinkers on religion more than a century and a half after it was written, this seminal work of modern theology, first published in 1845, presents a history of Catholic doctrine from the days of the Apostles to the time of its writing, and follows with specific examples of how the doctrine has not only survived corruption but grown stronger through defending itself against it, and is, therefore, the true religion. This classic of Christian apologetics, considered a foundational work of 19th-century intellectualism on par with Darwin's Origin of Species, is must reading not only for the faithful but also for anyone who wishes to be well educated in the fundamentals of modern thought. |
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... seem , water proceeded as a flood out of the serpent's mouth , ' and covered all the witnesses , so that not even their dead . bodies lay in the streets of the great city . ' Let him take which of his doctrines he will , his peculiar ...
... seems to have fancied that Bishop Bull proved the primitiveness of the Catholic doctrine concerning the Holy Trinity as well as that concerning our Lord . Now it should be clearly understood what it is which must be shown by those who ...
... seems to fall under two heads . One is the general ascription of glory to the Three Persons together , both by fathers and churches , and that on continuous tradition and from the earliest times . Under the second fall certain distinct ...
... seems to have been that , by partaking of the bread and wine in the Eucharist , the soul of the believer is united to the Spirit , and that by this union the principle of immortality is im- parted to the flesh . " 5 " It has been ...
... seem possible , then , to avoid the conclusion that , whatever be the proper key for harmonizing the records and ... seems to be confessed on all hands . That it existed in other respects , as a practice , is plain from the nature of ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III | 99 |
PAGE | 122 |
Conservative Action on its Past | 123 |
PART II | 167 |
33 | 177 |
75 | 265 |
The Historical Argument in behalf of the existing Developments | 313 |
CHAPTER VII | 323 |
Scripture and its Mystical Interpretation | 338 |
Additional Remarks | 353 |
CHAPTER IX | 383 |
CHAPTER X | 400 |
CHAPTER XII | 437 |
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine Blessed John Henry Newman,Aeterna Press Limited preview - 1949 |